"A Change of Heart" by Emma

          Recently my class had a spelling assignment (when Mrs.Allen was gone at a Words Their Way training) where we could choose between writing sentences, making a comic strip, or writing a short story, all using at least twelve of our spelling words (homophones). I chose to write a short story that I later titled: "A Change of Heart."

Here is the story that I wrote:
       
           Once upon a time, there was a king, King Roland. This king was rich, and he had a wonderful throne. Sadly, King Roland thought that his throne was rather plain.The king started to think,"How can I make my throne more spectacular, more attractive, more noticable?" While thinking, King Roland walked out onto his impressive pier overlooking the bay.
               Just then, a mysterious plane zoomed by. King Roland  was so deep in thought that he didn't notice. The plane zoomed by again, this time looming closer. King Roland was startled. This time he had heard and was suspicious. "Who goes there? If it's another fan here to impress me, you're just a waste of time!"
           All was silent. Thinking that the plane was gone for good, King Roland resumed his thoughts. He was peacefully contemplating when out of nowhere, the plane zooms past the pier, scoops up King Roland, and flies off. King Roland wails. "Put me down!" he cries. With no response, King Roland looked up from where he was being held at the underside of the plane."Hello? Anybody there? You're flying with me on the underside of your plane. You knew that, right?" King Roland asked.
                       While flying, King Roland saw many villagers that were in great need. Their homes were not the best; the people were hungry and thirsty. King Roland was disappointed in himself. "How could I have been so blind? They're in a great need, and I was totally oblivious to it!" he exclaimed. King Roland devised a plan to get off the plane. When the plane reached a patch of trees, he would jump and hopefully land safely.
              With a lot of scrapes and bruises, King Roland's plan worked. When he got to his castle, he forgot his throne and donated almost all of his money to the villagers. Everybody lived happily ever after.

                                                                  The End

Possessive Noun Scavenger Hunt

Since our spelling words these next two weeks revolve around singular and possessive nouns, today we began learning about possessive nouns through a fun, quick scavenger hunt, which took about seven minutes for most everyone to finish.

Students worked with their baseball partners to find cards that showed the objects belonging to someone, and they had to write the possessive noun form on their record sheet. For example, if they found "This notebook belongs to Gina" on a notebook, they would have to record "Gina's notebook" on their sheet. Here's another example: if they found the card "This eraser belongs to Kathy" taped to an eraser somewhere in the room, they would record "Kathy's eraser" on their sheet.

Spelling Comics

For our current set of spelling words, some of us decided to create a comic strip to help practice spelling our words. More will be added as they finish this week, so stay tuned.